This is Angie Paccione (rhymes with catch a pony) and she's running for congress against Mailyn Musgrave, who is not only an unethical witch, but also the author of the no-marriage-for-homos amendment for the Constitution. Musgrave recently said (during a fundraiser) that gay marriage is the "most important issue" facing America today (sure am glad we got that War on Terror all wrapped up). Musgrave has GOT TO GO—she's a source of much evil in the world and in congress in particular.

Angie Paccione actually stands a good chance of winning. She is running a fantastic race and all she needs is a little bit more money to push her over the victory line!

I just gave Angie (another) $10. Please, pretty-please-with-sugar, contribute $10 yourself. Ten bucks is nothing and it's a nice gesture that you are sick of people like Musgrave in the congress.

UPDATE: CQ Politics has just changed the rating of the race from "Republican Favored" to "Leans Republican." This is fantastic news.

This is beyond fabulous. Finally some honesty. It's nice to see him spend a little of his remaining political capital and I’m gratified to see him finally fighting back against the wingnuts who have made his life a living hell since the day he took office. Let’s hope other Democrats continue to figure out that picking a real fight with the media and with these loser Republicans is not only good on the substance, it’s damned good politics. When you attack the media and make those self-absorbed guardians of the national discourse part of the story, you break through their habitually snickering, narcissistic filter. They can’t help but go with the story, if only to clutch the pearls and tut tut about your passion. Just ask Sid Blumenthal.

And here's some reaction. First, the Daily Show with Jon Stewart (who covers the rest of the media so I don't have to):

I think Jon Stewart's take on the media's reaction is, as usual, right on target. TDS once again strings together different clips of video to let people hang themselves, in this case it's the different talking heads shoveling thier bullshit for their sadly misinformed (especially in the case of Fox) viewers. The video speaks for itself but Stewart's "oh really? Who the fuck are you?" is a great capper.